IT continuity in Japanese organizations surveyed
PwC Japan has published a detailed report following a survey of Japanese IT organizations.
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•Date: 29th May 2014 • Japan •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
European Commission proposes new energy security strategy
European Energy Security Strategy builds on the progress already achieved since the gas crisis in 2009.
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•Date: 29th May 2014 • Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Breakthrough wearable device adds to crisis messaging armoury
New AtusSmartBadge helps gain users’ attention to important text messages and issues instant personal alarms.
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•Date: 29th May 2014 • Europe/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications
This issue includes:
• NFPA 1600 update
• European Commission identifies 20 critical raw materials for EU industries
• Phoenix makes senior business continuity appointment
• NIST seeks comments on major revision to industrial control systems security guide
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Crisis communications and the CEO
While a CEO shouldn’t hide, it may well be appropriate in the early stages of a crisis to field a more junior spokesperson.
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•Date: 28th May 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications
Go back to basics to avoid network outages
Many organizations fail to implement some simple processes that can help reduce the number and severity of network outages says Joel Dolisy.
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•Date: 28th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
New crisis management standard now available
BS 11200:2014 sets out good practice for the provision of an effective crisis management response.
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•Date: 27th May 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis management
A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks
An updated version of the Software Engineering Institute’s 2010 report presents a taxonomy of operational cyber security risks and harmonizes it with other risk and security activities.
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•Date: 27th May 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
The winners of the DRI2014 Awards of Excellence
The 2014 DRI International Awards of Excellence were presented at the DRI2014 Certified Professionals Conference held in Atlanta on May 20th, at a Gala Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
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•Date: 27th May 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
NOAA issues hurricane season forecasts
Eastern Pacific and Central Pacific should see near-normal or above-normal hurricane seasons; near-normal or below-normal for Atlantic.
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•Date: 27th May 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Climate change related resilience planning has become crucial for all corporations
S&P 500 companies are seeing climate change related risks increase in urgency, likelihood and frequency: CDP report.
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•Date: 26th May 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
The BCI European Awards winners
The 2014 BCI European Awards took place on Wednesday 21st May at a Gala Dinner to coincide with the Business Continuity Institute’s Executive Forum in Amsterdam.
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•Date: 26th May 2014 • UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Traditional approaches to cybersecurity ‘no longer work’
Board directors suffering from fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) fatigue…
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•Date: 26th May 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
How-to guide for cutting information risk
New guidance document developed by a group of records and information management professionals in the financial services industry and published by Iron Mountain.
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•Date: 26th May 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
SBA presents the 2014 Phoenix Awards
Awards highlight outstanding disaster recovery efforts.
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•Date: 26th May 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
The BCI India Awards
The 2014 BCI India Awards took place on Monday 19th May at a Gala Dinner to coincide with the second Business and IT Resilience Summit in Mumbai.
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•Date: 26th May 2014 • Asia •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
This issue includes:
• Business Continuity Guide: Contingency Planning for Infectious Disease Pandemics
• More enterprises plan to strengthen access security with multi-factor authentication
• Adaptation & Change in a Business Continuity Programme
• 12th Asia Business Continuity Conference
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US retailers launch ‘Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center’
Through the R-CISC, retailers are sharing cyber threat information among themselves and, via analysts, with public and private stakeholders.
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•Date: 16th May 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
African natural disaster insurance pool launched
The first ever African catastrophe insurance pool has been launched by the African Risk Capacity (ARC), a specialised agency set-up by the African Union.
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•Date: 16th May 2014 • Africa •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Emerging threats: natural capital depletion will leave businesses dangerously exposed, warns new report
Many businesses and industries are reliant on scarce natural resources; they must adapt or face closure says a new report.
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•Date: 16th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk management
Taking control of your cloud
Organizations need to know where their cloud services are hosted for disaster recovery and data protection purposes.
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•Date: 15th May 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Is enough being done to keep UK critical infrastructure secure?
Duncan Fisken asks whether critical infrastructure interdependencies are being effectively addressed.
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•Date: 15th May 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Back to basics…
Security breaches are on the rise. Yet as security experts face ever more complex and challenging threats, is there a risk some of the basic components of IT security are being overlooked?
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•Date: 15th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
NIST seeks comments on new guidance for creating trustworthy resilient systems
Comments deadline is July 11th, 2014.
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•Date: 15th May 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Concern about MERS-CoV has ‘significantly increased’: WHO IHR Emergency Committee
WHO statement after the Fifth Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee concerning MERS-CoV.
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•Date: 15th May 2014 • M.East/World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
This issue includes:
• TelecityGroup France achieves ISO 22301
• $15 million for Australia bushfire preparedness
• SolarWinds enhances virtualization management capabilities for hybrid IT
• New management console for users of CBMR backup software
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Cyber security being superseded by ‘cyber resilience’
Traditional cyber security is now inadequate for today’s threat landscape and must be superseded by ‘cyber resilience’, demanding more vigorous action from company boardrooms.
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•Date: 14th May 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Complexity leading to downtime issues in UK organizations
Vanson Bourne survey finds that 48 percent of respondents experience availability and outage issues at least once a week.
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•Date: 14th May 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
New ‘Cloud Fabric’ infrastructure layer will add another option for business continuity strategies
Zerto has announced a strategy to create a new infrastructure layer called ‘Cloud Fabric’ which allows organizations to seamlessly move and protect virtualized workloads between public, private and hybrid clouds across leading hypervisors and cloud providers.
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•Date: 14th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
International SOS sees surge in MERS-CoV advice requests
International SOS clients are proactively reviewing their outbreak business continuity and pandemic plans.
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•Date: 14th May 2014 • Middle East / World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
‘Rogue employees’ are the biggest threat to information security
Confidence in information security risk management strategies is low, according to BSI poll.
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•Date: 14th May 2014 • UK / World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
This issue includes:
• SUSE brings high availability to private clouds
• Top IT data security threats
• Dimension Data rolls out Cloud Backup
• Will Brown joins PwC's Enterprise Resilience team
• Event: Adaptation & Change in a Business Continuity Programme
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Information risks to consider during mergers and acquisitions
Failed mergers and acquisitions can be a real business continuity threat; however better management of M&A information risks can reduce the possibility of things going wrong.
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•Date: 12th May 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
The shortlist for the BCI European Awards
The BCI European Awards Ceremony will take place at a Gala Dinner on the evening of the 21st May.
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•Date: 12th May 2014 • UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Downtime and AWS
Which are the most and least stable regions for hosting cloud services with Amazon Web Services?
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•Date: 12th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Check Point 2014 Security Report identifies ‘exponential increase in new and unknown malware on enterprise networks’
Report based on monitored security events from over 10,000 organizations worldwide.
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•Date: 12th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
The winners of the BCI Middle East Awards
The 2014 BCI Middle East Awards were presented on 7th May as part of the integral BCI Middle East Conference in Dubai.
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•Date: 8th May 2014 • Middle East•Type: Article • Topic: BC general
The top ten risks to Australian and New Zealand businesses
Results of Aon’s 12th annual Australasian Risk Survey published.
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•Date: 8th May 2014 • Australasia •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
Board and C-Level recognition of operational risk management rising within financial institutions
Need for greater alignment with strategy identified: KPMG and RMA survey.
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•Date: 8th May 2014 • North America •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
April’s major natural disasters roundup
Convective weather was the cause of the greatest financial impacts in April.
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•Date: 8th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
This issue includes:
• EY hires ex-Bank of England Head of Operational Resilience, John Milne
• 25 percent of breaches go undetected for more than 24 hours
• Internet of Things security requirements will reshape and expand global enterprise IT security programs
• AvailabilityGuard v6.3 released
• Unitrends radically advances unified on-premise, second-site and cloud data protection and recovery
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‘Branch in a box’ helps retailer’s business continuity strategy
UK-based consultancy, Jermyn Consulting, has developed a bespoke business continuity system for a leading electrical distribution chain.
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•Date: 7th May 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Retail BC
US government reports on climate change risks
The Obama Administration has published the third US National Climate Assessment, providing the most comprehensive scientific assessment ever generated of climate change and its impacts across every region of America and major sectors of the US economy.
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•Date: 7th May 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Maplecroft releases its latest Conflict and Political Violence Index
Levels of conflict and political violence have risen in 48 countries over the last six months.
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•Date: 7th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
This issue includes:
• The Non-Advanced Persistent Threat
• World Continuity Congress Malaysia
• FPL and Florida National Guard form first-of-a-kind partnership to enhance disaster response capabilities
• Peak 10 is the first in the Americas to achieve Cisco Powered DRaaS
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Linking ISM and BCM brings real business benefits: Ponemon survey
The involvement of business continuity management reduced the cost of a data breach by an average of almost $9 per record.
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•Date: 6th May 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
SIFMA announces dates for 2014 business continuity planning tests and exercises
SIFMA, the US Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, has scheduled a number of business continuity related tests and exercises in the second half of 2014.
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•Date: 6th May 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC testing & exercising
Shortlist released for BCI India Awards
The BCI India business continuity awards will be presented on the evening of the 19th May in Mumbai as part of the 2nd Business & IT Resilience Summit.
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•Date: 6th May 2014 • India •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
The Information Security Breaches Survey 2014
Cost of UK business cyber security breaches almost double.
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•Date: 6th May 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
The 2014 BANG Awards winners
The 6th Annual Bang Awards, the UK’s alternative business continuity awards, were presented on 30th April in London.
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•Date: 1st May 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
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